Ukraine’s four-year war with Russia has made it the world leader in battlefield drone technology. One byproduct of that is that the data it collects has become one of the country’s most valuable assets. On Thursday, Ukraine played that card, saying it will begin sharing its battlefield data with allies to train drone AI software.
“In modern warfare, we must defeat Russia in every technological cycle,” Ukraine Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov wrote on Telegram (translated from Ukrainian). “Artificial intelligence is one of the key areas of this competition.”
Fedorov previewed the move when he took his post in January. At the time, the tech-savvy cabinet member pledged to “more actively” bring
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